Power In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

The premise of conflicting perspectives arises from the subjectivity of composers in representing events, personalities, and situations; in combination with responders’ reception of meaning. As such, methods of representation, such as textual form, are deliberately manipulated in order to deeply establish authorial perspective and purpose. Aldous Huxley’s subversive novel, Brave New World centres around individual and shared political perspectives and reflects a dichotomy of perspectives in which an innate bias is interwoven into Huxley’s personal interpretation of modernity. These interpretive representations assume a manipulation of language, content, and construction to emphasise the transcending influence of power in its ability to shelter and expose surrounding perceptions of political truths in and through texts. In a similar way, Dennis Liu’s Plurality (2012) is a satirical comment on modern day advancements in technology and its interrelation with political systems and governing bodies. As context informs …show more content…
Liu conveys a satirised representation of this issue through the Benthem Grid; described as a “technological marvel”, the grid takes anything unique you and links it to your DNA. This system, although first developed for convenience, has led to the eradication of personal privacy. “But eventually, after just six months, the state legislature passed an unprecedented bill, giving law enforcement complete access to the grids data.” The diction of ‘eventually’, ‘just’ and ‘unprecedented’ emphasises the inevitability of the situation and thus, becomes an allegory of impending concepts. “Happily sacrifice a little bit of privacy for that kind of personal safety.” The emphasis on ‘little’ demonstrates and ironical representation of the societies acceptance of a totalitarian concept at the prospect of safety and